Wide Ruled: Recent Episodes
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Two of the co-founders of GIFT explore how their organization is doing the most with donor dollars. GIFT is an organization dedicated to building wealth in the Black community through...
Founder and CEO of the Latinx Education Collaborative Edgar Palacios unpacks how he came to identify as Latinx in this episode of Wide Ruled. The Latinx Education Collaborative is doing...
The presence of Black male educators in the classroom benefits everyone. For Black students, it means seeing yourself in a position of power and leadership. For other students, it means...
If education were to be the great equalizer, than it must diminish inequities in power and privilege that exist atop 400 years of racist policy and class separation. If that’s...
Recently, an Olathe North teacher was fired for using the n-word at a school function. While it was an acute incident which led to the teacher’s termination, one acquaintance of...
Be anti-anti-CRT; in other words, teach truth. The history of the United States is the history of racism. It’s the history of the constant evolution of a constructed idea of...
Lucas Vincent and Stephanie Alderman-Oler talk about the challenges students face when juggling homework, grades, and involvement in all sorts of extra-curricular activities. This bonus episode extends the conversation from...
Magnet schools are most well-known as a half-hearted remedy to the foibles of post-Brown integration. The concept is still alive, however, in the form of specialty programs that allow students...
While teaching has long been a profession fraught with burnout and laden with stress, COVID 19 made it worse: heaping onto the camel’s back the need for teacher’s to become...
In episode 3 of season 2 of Wide Ruled, Alex Ochoa shares his journey to $0 in college debt. His decision to go debt free was one of guts, persistence,...
Brian Dolezal is Assistant Principal at Sumner Academy in Kansas City, Kansas. He was about to go on vacation in spring break of 2020 when things hit the fan. A...
David Muhammad is an educator, sensei and rapper. In this episode of Wide Ruled, Nathaniel and David talk about school demographics, how planning and resources led to differential school reactions...
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Starting with a chance meeting, Taliq Tillman, Taiwo Demola and Kiara Butler aim to take an incredible new notion of professional development from idea to reality. This entrepreneurial journey will not be without its struggles.
Diane Mora explains why standardized testing disproportionately affects English Language Learners.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is partnering with local schools to teach Visual Thinking Strategies. But student outcomes go way beyond just aesthetic development.
The Leading Men Fellowship is connecting recent graduates of color with pre-K kids to write a new narrative about men of color.
Marquitta Fields tells her story of growing up in Detroit and demonstrates the power of context and awareness.
Minnesota’s statewide teachers union staff and members tell the story of how they’re fighting racism by making it personal.
Florida educators allege that recent legislation in Florida comes as part and parcel of an ongoing onslaught on our kids.
PAC Superintendent Joe Kramer and former KCMSD Assistant Superintendent Mary Esselman talk about school consolidation in rural and urban settings
Students and teachers in rural Iowa talk about their innovative approach to the final weeks of the school year
Kansas Commissioner of Education Randy Watson talks about the Kansas School redesign initiative, Kansans Can, and inequity in Kansas education.
Coach Chris Graham and an Olathe Northwest alumnus tell the story that compelled the district to take new measures to care for the mental health of their students.
Community organizer Andrew Johnson and executive director Kristin Droege tell the story of the Citizens of the World KC charter school.
Lora McDonald, executive director of MORE2, tells the story of how her organization discovered and disrupted collusion between the MO Board of Ed and a local foundation
Assistant principal Devon Teran and two of his students tell the story of how their school has responded to President Trump.
Lashauna Guy tells the story of her experience with the education system and the nefarious origins of the IQ test.
Katie Boody and Aditya Voleti of the Lean Lab offer recommendations for what you can do to engage with education in your neighborhood.
A teacher in Kansas City, Kansas talks about the events leading up to and following his shift from accepting the status quo to being dedicated to innovating within a broken system.